Category: UKYA

Exciting news! Introducing a new YA Book Club – Never Judge a Book Club!

Posted January 4, 2024 by Emma in Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Happy Thursday my lovely readers. So today brings exciting news to my little blog. I’m starting a YA book club! ✨ New for 2024 is my very own book club. It’s been something I’ve been thinking of for a while and I took the courage to create one. I mean sometimes you just have to take the risk right. Since announcing and starting up a little account on instagram I’ve been overwhelmed by the responses. It’s gone global with some many members from different countries. The best thing is that we all love or want to read more YA books […]

My Top Ten Books of 2023

Posted December 30, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, UKYA, YA / 4 Comments

Hello my lovely readers. As 2023 is drawing to a close it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2023. For some reason this was the easiest year to select my top 10. I have found some incredible new writers this year, some very underrated YA books that need loads more love, absolutely unforgettable and a book that I will always recommend. I’ve been extremely lucky to have met these authors at YALC this year sharing my admiration and love for these incredible books. I’m excited by what 2023 has brought […]

Cosy Sunday Reading Update – Heartstopper Volume 4 and 5

Posted December 10, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Bookish Post, Heartstopper, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, I took a bit of lengthy unintentional break from the blog. Like with everything, work got super busy. But I’m hoping as I my term comes to an end in a week and half I’ll be coming back. But today, I had a very chilled and cosy Sunday, reading and I want to record it, here on my blog. I wanted to document my feeling for Heartstopper whilst reading it. Blanket + Christmas Tree lights + Christmas fireplace ASMR + BOOKS = A Cosy Sunday Reading I’ve been unwell the last few days and today I […]

Under the Cover #5 with David Fenne – author of Overemotional

Posted September 13, 2023 by Emma in Bookish Post, Interview, LGBTQ+, UKYA, Under the Cover, YA / 0 Comments

Happy hump day my bookish friends. I’m back with my author interviews and I have some amazing ones lined up over the next few weeks. I’m so excited. Today I am welcoming, David Fenne author of OVEREMOTIONAL which I reviewed last week. Under the Cover is where I interview some of favourite authors and authors I’ve recently read and discovered. I’m trying to refresh my blog and I love interviewing authors and getting an insight into their storytelling, hence Under the Cover was born. I was lucky enough to see David at a YA panel at CampYA, I finished his book at the […]

Book Review | Overemotional by David Fenne – A laugh-out-loud heartfelt queer YA

Posted September 7, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 0 Comments

Hello my lovely readers, it’s a hot one in the UK at the moment, wish this weather was around when I had my summer holidays and not when I’m back at work, starting a new academic year. That the British weather for you. Ha. Today I’m bring you a review of my last read of August and that of my summer holidays and what a cracker it was. It was such a good book so let me tell you a bit more. I knew I needed this book when I went to CampYA at the beginning of the summer and […]

My Top 5 YA Standalone books ‘I wish I had when I was younger’

Posted August 25, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, today’s post is inspired by Heartstopper. With the new season out and the hype and love around it, the comment I keep seeing or reading is ‘I wish I had this book/series when I was younger’. So I thought I would do a few posts, from standalone books to book series (which will include Heartstopper no doubt). So as an adult reading Young Adult and some Children’s books, it got me thinking about the books I wished I had when I was younger. Young Adult books wasn’t a category when I was a young adult. I […]

Book Review | How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean – a queer Karen McManus Mystery

Posted August 18, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book Review, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, UKYA / 1 Comment

Hello my friends, welcome to my first book review of the Summer Holidays. I have broken up for the 6 weeks and I am catching up on some amazing books I’ve read. Today I’m reviewing the new Benjamin Dean book, I also met him at CampYA this weekend which was amazing. So before I say any more I think I should save it for my review, so here is a little more about the book. The return teen TV sitcom Sunset High with a murderous curse. Abel has always wanted to be a star and to get onto the revamp […]

My 5 Underrated YA Books you must read if you love books set at sea

Posted August 11, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, I am on holiday by the sea and it got me thinking about YA books set at sea. I always take with me books that are set on around the seaside. I have read some incredible books, 3 of these I have read this year and I feel these are all very underrated books, action-packed, compelling and unputtadownable reads. I love this setting and world building, can be applied to any genre but mainly fantasy I have to say. They feel more escapable and real as you can imagine them a whole new world out and […]

Happy National Book Lovers Day with my ultimate favourite books!

Posted August 9, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, Favourites, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Happy Book Lovers Day my fellow readers! August 9th is National Book Lovers Day celebrating our favourite books and what it means to be a reader, to be a book lover. On my bookstagram I post about my favourite books all the time but not here. They do tend to change every so often especially this year where I’ve added at least 3 new favourites. But how does it become a favourite book? I have my own criteria when it comes to favourite books that I thought I would share. Yes it may be 5 stars and the storytelling is […]